Paul Guay

SCREENWRITER - SCRIPT CONSULTANT

Credentials

Paul Guay conceived and co-wrote Liar, Liar, at the time of its release the sixth-highest-grossing comedy in history, the fourth-highest-grossing film of the year, the second-highest-grossing film of Jim Carrey’s career, and Imagine’s highest-grossing film ever.

The screenplay received an Honorable Mention (along with Fargo, Million Dollar Baby, The Full Monty and Catch Me If You Can) in Scr(i)pt magazine’s list of the Best Scripts of the Past 10 Years.

Guay co-wrote The Little Rascals, Universal’s second-highest-grossing film of the year;

Co-wrote Heartbreakers, starring Sigourney Weaver, Jennifer Love Hewitt, Gene Hackman and Jason Lee, which opened #1 at the box office, and the rights to which Guay co-licensed to MGM for production as a stage musical;

Wrote On a Pale Horse for Disney and Academy Award winner Jamie Foxx, based on Book One of the eight-volume “Incarnations of Immortality” series by New York Times-bestselling author Piers Anthony; and

Co-wrote The Christmas Spirit for Dean Devlin to produce and Rob Minkoff to direct.

Guay’s screenwriting experience includes The NeverEnding Story, for which he did an uncredited polish. Directed by Wolfgang Petersen, the acclaimed fantasy spawned two sequels; and

Mouse Hunt , for which he did an uncredited co-polish. Starring Nathan Lane, Lee Evans and Christopher Walken and directed by Gore Verbinski, the comedy was the highest-grossing of DreamWorks’ first five films.

He is, of course, a former consultant to World Wrestling Entertainment.